Quotes about Slavery from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "Use them as a guide, without allowing them to be so set that you become a slave to them. slavery in any form is a curse, and counterproductive to the pursuit of happiness and health, www.talklisten.com/exchange/ 2001/october/ is a website with helpful information on goal setting.
Planning
A plan is a map to get us where we want to go. It is our plotted route toward the achievement of our goals and success. Most people don't plan to succeed, nor do they plan to fail either. They just fail to plan. Make your planning choice organized, with a purpose in mind."- Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) |
 "If it was fought to get rid of slavery, it was a poor way to do it. slavery disappeared from the rest of the world with hardly a fatality. Or, if it was fought to Preserve the
Union, it was a fraud; the founders had declared it self-evident that Americans had a right to dissolve the Union.
"As for the First World War," we explained, "the average American was as ignorant of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as he or she was of the contents of Austrian sausages."- William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) |
 "John of Ephesus, in 581, wrote of the first appearance of what he termed "an accursed people, called Slavonians, [who] overran the whole of Greece, and the country of the Thessalonians, and all Thrace, and captuted the cities, and took numerous forts, and devastated and burnt, and reduced the people to slavery, and made themselves masters of the whole country, and settled in it by main force, and dwelt in it as though it had been their own. . . ."l6 In the slightly more even-handed eighth-century Strategikon of the emperor Maurice they are described as "independent. . . populous and hardy . . ."- William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) |
 "Freed from the slavery of the mind, we can live our lives in celebration, subtle non-causal joy, inner contentment, and the bliss of freedom.
GABRIEL COUSENS, MD
CONSCIOUS EATING TRAINING
The foundation of the Conscious Eating Training at the Tree of Life Cafe is to create food for the support of consciousness awakening. Conscious eating begins with conscious food preparation. Studies have shown that our intentions influence the smallest particles of creation."- Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
 "We have struggled for freedom from slavery, freedom from prejudice, and freedom from persecution; for the freedom to say what we believe, to live where we wish, and to worship as we choose.
But what is all this freedom for?
Our underlying motivation, as ever, is to move away from pain and suffering toward greater joy and contentment. This is the underlying freedom for which we have worked and fought: to be free from all that seems to stop us from finding peace and fulfillment.
To an extent, we have been successful. We have eliminated or reduced many sources of suffering."- Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) |
 "The first was the plantation system based on slavery. The second was really a modified version of the first when slavery was outlawed: share-cropping, in effect, serfdom. Both systems are essentially feudal. I doubt slavery will make a comeback, but I wonder about sharecropping, or something like it. The persistence of culture is a real phenomenon. Over a period of time, a southern agricultural economy may reorganize itself by default along the feudal lines that existed historically, odious as it may seem."- James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
| "If it was fought to get rid of slavery, it was a poor way to do it. slavery disappeared from the rest of the world with hardly a fatality. Or, if it was fought to Preserve the
Union, it was a fraud; the founders had declared it self-evident that Americans had a right to dissolve the Union.
"As for the First World War," we explained, "the average American was as ignorant of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as he or she was of the contents of Austrian sausages." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) |
 "And by likening allopathy to slavery, he sought to harness the campaigning morality that had emerged as such a powerful weapon in abolitionism:
Woman ... is the pillar of Homeopathy; she first saw the horrors of the old system in her own nursery among her loved ones; she has first experienced the blessing of the new. It was she that emancipated the slave: it will be she that ultimately rescues the Briton from the crooked and venomous darts of physic. She will then enter upon one of her own callings from which she has too long been excluded."- Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) |
 "Journal Entry, March 2007
This vision sustains me; without it, I may succumb to the deep despair of present-day living where people suffer from the ravages of war, the social injustices of oppression, the tyranny of economic slavery, when the earth is repeatedly exploited for profit, pushing it to the brink of destruction. I am fortunate because I have plant allies to help support me and give me hope. Even though these may be very challenging times, they are also very exciting times because we are on the verge of a massive evolutionary leap."- Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) |
 "One is now a captive of those beliefs, and he enters into his slavery willingly, because this slavery is also an important defense. If fascism were ever to come to America, it would no doubt come by popular vote not by autocratic edict. We would slip into unquestioning obedience to the leader gladly, for it would relieve us of having to think for ourselves. He would protect us from the evil "out there." I am reminded of those who dive for sharks in steel cages. They have no freedom of movement but it is a fact that the sharks cannot get to them."- Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.) |
 "With this new kind of philosophy, we are moving into a world of obedience, of mental slavery, of obsessive adaptation and conformity. Yes, it is practical and makes less work when a child isn't "hyperactive." But perhaps we destroy our children when we define (and agree) to a standard that is stopping our children, which is scientifically questionable and, in the final end, opinion and nothing more than opinion.
But we don't even have to be that complicated in arguing; the real truth is much simpler. With a "hyperactive" child Big Pharma can make money."- Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
| "One is now a captive of those beliefs, and he enters into his slavery willingly, because this slavery is also an important defense. If fascism were ever to come to America, it would no doubt come by popular vote not by autocratic edict. We would slip into unquestioning obedience to the leader gladly, for it would relieve us of having to think for ourselves. He would protect us from the evil "out there." I am reminded of those who dive for sharks in steel cages. They have no freedom of movement but it is a fact that the sharks cannot get to them." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.) |
| "Just as the body acts to free spirit, or ojas, from gross matter, so embodiment over the course of many life cycles acts to purify the individual soul (or 'atman') of its worldly attachments and free it from slavery to matter. In Vagbhata's Heart of Medicine (written c.6oo ce) ojas is described in some detail:
It is said, however, that the ultimate power in all the body tissues, right up to seed, is ojas. Although it is based in the heart, it permeates, maintaining the continuity of the body. It is unctuous... pure, and slightly reddish yellow." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) |
 "In this Second Revolutionary Period, conflict flared between the Federalists (the aristocratic large-scale farmers, merchants, land speculators, and manufacturers) and the small-scale subsistence farmers who had endured slavery or servitude and finally had earned enough to buy a small plot of land. Though the aristocratic Federalists took credit for leading the tax revolt in the Revolution against England, the small farmers, laborers, servants, slaves, and shopkeepers were, for the most part, the ones who fought and died."- Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Instead of freedom, most immigrants of any color faced years of slavery or indentured servitude on aristocratically owned estates growing mostly export crops. To understand how American rural communities developed over the last four hundred years, it helps to look at how European farming changed after the Renaissance and the Reformation. From Roman times until the 1500s many European countries had common and church lands, to which a large majority of the population (the peasantry) held hereditary use rights." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Slavery is abolished in the British Empire. 1834 Cyrus McCormick invents the mechanical reaper, and the trend toward monoculture and industrial farming is thereby accelerated. Thousands of threshing jobs disappear. 1837 The Panic of 1837 (economic depression) causes great loss of land by small farmers in the eastern states. This is a much more widespread and severe depression than the Panics of 1808 and 1819. 1838 ?First electric telegraph is created Britain. Sir Marc Brunei's steamship, Great Western, is launched." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) |
 "We will touch on the unsavory subject of slavery and cacao later.
Venezuela
Venezuela was Ecuador's great rival for the lucrative Mexican market, and the chief cacao exporter to 17th and 18th-century
Europe.13 Venezuelan cacao was grown along a narrow coastal plain on the north, or Caribbean, coast; narrow because it is hemmed in on the south by cloud-wreathed mountains which in places seem almost to tumble into the sea. Large swells often pound its shores, driven by the Northeast Trade Winds which blow for much of the year, and there are precious few natural harbors."- Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.) "France's two main slave-trade ports, Nantes and Bordeaux, grew rich on the proceeds from the "Three-way Trade"; and the steady influx of tobacco, sugar, coffee, cacao, cotton, indigo, and other tropical commodities spawned sugar, textile, and chocolate mills in the mother country. slavery was officially banned in 1817 in France, but Nantes was clandestinely trading in slaves for the next 20 years." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.) |
 "For example, in the old South in the United States, slavery was crucial to the economy, and thus it was important to create a culture that made white people feel okay about having African slaves. The cultural solution for this feudalistic economy was to dehumanize Africans. A consumer economy, unlike a feudalistic economy, doesn't want slaves who lack purchasing power. An extremist industrial-consumer society requires everyone to be both a producer and a consumer."- Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.) |
| "The Fry family was deeply distressed by the wtetched working conditions, approaching slavery, which then prevailed on the plantations of Portuguese West Africa, and they boycotted cacao from those parts until the situation improved.
The Fight for Pure Chocolate
One reads with horror the accounts of food adulteration which prevailed through much of the Victorian era—even of the bread which was the staple food of the urban poor, and of the tea which was their drink." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.) |
 "In finer print they spelled out their pitch: "A family that uses five pounds of sugar per week will, by using East India instead of West India for 21 months, prevent the slavery or Murder of one Fellow Creature. Eight such families in 19V£ years will prevent the slavery or murder of 100."
His majesty's government, with its vested interest in both slavery and sugar, spoke loftily of the empire. Britain was the center of the sugar industry of the entire world. "- William Duffy, Sugar Blues (Get the book.) |
| "Historically, progressive religious locales have been at the center of major social movements in the United States, most notably the abolition of slavery, the fight for civil rights, and antiwar activism. Such religious organizations and the buildings that house them are where the elderly and the homeless receive support, and where even the nonreligious can meet for entertainment and recreation." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.) |
 "At the end of March 2006, Charles Taylor was arrested on charges of murder, sexual slavery, rape, the exploitation of child soldiers, and other war crimes. He faces trial by the Sierra Leonean Special Court, under authorization of the UN Security Council, which will take place at the facilities of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. If he is convicted, the international community is expected to cooperate in finding prison facilities for his incarceration.
Taylor's trial stands to demonstrate the strength and effectiveness of universal jurisdiction."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
| "Spinoza's great work The Ethics is, in part, about liberation from the slavery of one's emotions. Spinoza concluded that a focus on the self's narrow needs ultimately keeps us from greater knowledge and thus sabotages our well-being. He was the rationalist who showed how narrowness of focus was a source of unhappiness. Spinoza logically explained pain as the transition from a greater state of wholeness to a lesser state. Correlatively, joy is the transition from a lesser state of wholeness to a greater state." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.) |
| "By the end of the 19th century, the Amazonian cacao plantations had disappeated, as slavery was finally abolished in Brazil, and as epidemics killed off what labot there was. Cacao survived as an industry in Brazil, but the commercial centet of gravity had moved out of the Amazon, to the coastal tegion of Bahia, south of the great river's delta." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.) |
 "By the 1820s slavery was becoming less economically viable along the eastern seaboard. John Taylor noted that many plantation owners refused to abandon even marginally profitable tobacco cultivation because to do so would have left them without winter work for their slaves. As much land lay abandoned in North Carolina as was being farmed. Low prices for tobacco and cotton, owing to competition from farms working fresh soils to the west, kept profits low on the depleted Piedmont and coastal lands. Slaves began to be a burden to their masters."- David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
 "The Nuremberg War Tribunal
The Nuremberg War Criminal Tribunal convicted 24 IG Farben board members and executives on the basis of mass murder, slavery and other crimes against humanity. Amazingly however, by 1951 all of them had already been released, continuing to consult with German corporations. The Nuremberg Tribunal dissolved the IG Farben into Bayer, Hoechst, and BASF.
Today each of the three daughters of the IG Farben is 20 times as big as the IG Farben mother was at its height in 1944, the last year of the Second World War."- Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "In 1948, ter Meer was sentenced by the Nuremberg Tribunal to seven years in prison for plundering and slavery. *" In 1952, his sentence was commuted, due to the influence of powerful friends. "•* From 1956-1964, he was reinstated as a member of the Managing Board of Bayer AG. In 1962, ter Meer was one of the architects of the "Codex Alimentarius" - Commission and one of the main designers of the schemes that would profit from human suffering. The deceptive title "Codex Alimentarius" is no accident." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "Nuremberg "IG Farben Trial," 24 IG Farben executives and board members were convicted of mass murder, slavery, and other "crimes against humanity," and the U.S. government concluded that World War II would have been impossible without the company. Originally, the Allies had planned to completely put IG Farben out of business and confiscate all of its assets, but in 1951, they instead decided to split the company up into its original constituent companies." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) |
 "Passover is a week-long holiday commemorating Jews' escape from slavery in Egypt. As part of its observance, Jews do not eat leavened bread and remove all traces of it from their homes. In many parts of the world, especially Europe, wheat, grain, and even legumes are also forbidden during Passover. Dr. Martin J. Blaser, a professor of internal medicine at New York University Medical Center, thinks this "spring cleaning" of grain stores may have helped to protect Jews from the plague, by decreasing their exposure to rats hunting for food—rats that carried the plague."- Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.) |
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